newbie question

[Norman Zhang]

Thanks Bill. My appologies for the misunderstanding on the -u and -t option.
The man pages said for Linux machines it will only work for kernel 2.3.99 or
above. I need to create a user for the -u option? When I tried to create a
user "named", the system tells me that it has already been created by bind
(named). TIA

Norman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Larson" <wllarso at swcp.com>
To: <nzhang at arkon.bc.ca>
Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: newbie question


> > Hi, I have two newbie questions. Would really appreciate if someone can
give
> > me some insights.
> >
> > I read from the man pages for named, the -u and -t chroot() options is
only
> > applicable on Linux running kernel 2.3.99 or above. Is that true?
>
> I sure hope not!  I'm using -u and -t under HP-UX.  My only problem was
> I had to specify my user with the -u option numerically.  I suspect
> that there is some shared library missing in my chroot environment.
>
> > Also what are the benefits of rndc, and how do you activate in named
script
> > in /etc/rc.d/init.d/?
>
> If desired, "rndc" can control a named process on a different machine,
> including stoping, reloading, dumps, etc.  The "r" stands for remote.
>
> In your init.d script, to start up named, just execute:
>
> named -u $USER -t $DIRECTORY ...
>
> To control named from an init.d script, you can use rndc ("rndc stop",
> "rndc reload") rather than trying to use signals ("kill -HUP $PID_FILE").
>
> Exactly what you do in an init.d script is up to you.
>
> Bill Larson